Testing: Giovanardi leads the way

The Nordauto Alfa Romeo ace was just 0.036s quicker than Paolo Ruberti's AGS-run 156, with Giovanardi's team-mate Larini third fastest. The quickest of the BMWs was Fredrik Ekblom's Team Belgium car, who just pipped the Carly Motorsport 320i of Peter Kox for fourth.

As expected, Alfa and BMW dominated the top 10, with Rickard Rydell the fastest Volvo S60 in 11th place, with team-mate James Hanson languishing a couple of seconds off the pace. Tommy Rustad was 13th fastest in the sole Nissan Primera.

Neither of CiBiEmme's Super Production spec Hondas tested on Thursday, but are expected to qualify on Saturday.

The opening rounds of the ETCC are held on Sunday.


1, Fabrizio Giovanardi, Alfa Romeo 156 Gta, 1m48.134s
2, Paolo Ruberti, Alfa Romeo 156 Gta, 1m48.170s
3, Nicola Larini, Alfa Romeo 156 Gta, 1m48.301s
4, Fredrik Ekblom, BMW 320i, 1m48.608s
5, Peter Kox, BMW 320i, 1m48.681s
6, Fabrizio De Simone, BMW 320i, 1m48.866s
7, Luis Villamil, Alfa Romeo 156 Gta, 1m48.941s
8, Dirk Muller, BMW 320i, 1m49.107s
9, Gianni Morbidelli, BMW 320i, 1m49.110s
10, Tom Coronel, BMW 320i, 1m49.188s
11, Rickard Rydell, Volvo S60, 1m49.214s
12, Jorg Mueller, BMW 320i, 1m49.242s
13, Tommy Rustad 1m49.284s
14, Jordi Gené, BMW 320i, 1m49.522s
15, Eric Cayrolle, Alfa Romeo 156 Gta, 1m49.607s
16, Romana Bernardoni, Alfa Romeo 156 Gta, 1m50.350s
17, Tom Ferrier, Alfa Romeo 156 Gta, 1m50.456s
18, James Hanson, Volvo S40, 1m54.627s